Posted on 01/18/2015 8:09:41 AM PST by Beave Meister
Jane Fonda said she hoped for an open dialogue with veterans after about 50 former military members and supporters protested the actress’s appearance Friday evening at the Weinberg Center for the Arts.
“Whenever possible I try to sit down with vets and talk with them, because I understand and it makes me sad,” Fonda told a relatively full theater, responding to a submitted question. “It hurts me and it will to my grave that I made a huge, huge mistake that made a lot of people think I was against the soldiers.”
In 1972 Fonda visited Hanoi, North Vietnam, where she criticized attacks on the dike system along the Red River. A U.S. investigation later revealed the publicity of these bombings as propaganda. Fonda’s statements and a photograph of her sitting on a North Vietnamese anti-aircraft battery outraged many Americans and veterans, leading many to call her “Hanoi Jane” and a “traitor.”
Bob Hartman, an Army veteran who served in Vietnam in 1967 and 1968, said he blamed Fonda for breaking off negotiations among the countries and held her responsible for thousands of American lives.
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“Whenever possible I try to sit down with vets and talk with them, because I understand and it makes me sad,” Fonda told a relatively full theater, responding to a submitted question. “It hurts me and it will to my grave that I made a huge, huge mistake that made a lot of people think I was against the soldiers.”
How patronizing of her. Especially the weasel words at the end.
Oh, so now it's OUR fault for thinking that you were (are) a traitor?
Stinking piece of crap.
Just go to your grave...to hell with you.
But not to worry...'cause Mr. Bergdahl is going to replace you as a "most hated" amongst soldiers.
Said it before, I’ll say it again: I believe that there are men who are waiting for her to die so they can go pee on her grave...and that they MEAN to do it.
Why would anyone go to a speech given by her? What on earth does she have to say that would interest anyone? Oh! I guess the same lame people who listened to her in the sixties and seventies. Some people never grow up. How soon after 1972 did she say she made a mistake by going to North Vietnam? 42-43 years later, it sort of loses its flavor, doesn’t it???
We can be grateful for one thing - she knew what people thought of her for all those years anyway!
Hope we both live to hear about it ! Thanks for your reply.
She’s a typical leftist,
“I’m sorry you were insulted by my insult but you shouldn’t have taken it that way.”
During a time of war Fonda put on a NVA uniform and sat in an anti-aircraft gun and allowed her picture to be made.
Yes....she was, and probably still is, against our troops.
In another time her passport would have been revoked and she would left in Vietnam where in my opinion she belongs.
It seems bassackwards, in the same month that I was in jump school, Barbarella was in Vietnam.
Of course Janie continues to make huge mistakes speaking out agains’t every military operation we undertake.
Of course Janie continues to make huge mistakes speaking out agains’t every military operation we undertake.
She was a supporter of the Cong. I saw he in action.
he=her
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